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Mr. Wendell Berry. The bottom rung is also Heaven.

If there are a “chosen few”then I am not one of them,if an “elect,” well thenI have not been elected.I am one who is knockingat the door. I am one whose footis on the bottom rung.But I know that Heaven’sbottom rung is Heaventhough the ladder is standingon the earth where I workby day and at night sleepwith my head upon a stone.